Pain management after robot-assisted thoracic surgery for mediastinal disease: a first step towards randomized control trials.

Ann Transl Med

Department of Anesthesiology, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.

Published: March 2023

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